The Castle On The Bridge Multi-Cache
Inishanier: Hi,
There has been no response from the cache owner so I'm Archiving this cache.
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Many thanks,
Graham
Inishanier - Volunteer Reviewer for Geocaching.com (Ireland)
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Carrigadrohid Castle,Co.Cork, Ireland An unusual small Medieval Castle built in the middle of a bridge in the beautiful valley of the River Lee.
Carrigadrohid Castle,Co.Cork, Ireland An unusual small Medieval Castle built in the middle of a bridge in the beautiful valley of the River Lee.
Carrigadrohid Castle (the name means the Rock of the Bridge in Irish)is a very unusual Irish Castle or Tower House in that it is built in the middle of a bridge on a rock in the River Lee.
It was built by the Princely McCarthys of Muskerry, who had originally been Kings of Munster.In the 15th Century it was fortified and occupied by Cormac McCarthy and his wife Sabina O'Carroll.
A century later Cormac McTeigh and his wife Joan Butler held the castle and lived here. However, in 1583 Cormac died suddenly and left it to Joan.
On the 10th May 1650 Bishop MacEgan, Bishop of Ross and a native of Duhallow was promised freedom by Oliver Cromwell's general if he could persuade the garrison to surrender. MacEgan however urged the garrison to fight to the end with the words "Hold out to the last for religion and country". He was hanged on a nearby tree in full view of the garrison with his horse's reins.
Some years later in the mid 17th Century, the castle was aquired by the Bowen family, originally from Wales. Henry Bowen was granted lands in North Cork and built Bowenscourt near Kildorrery. He was an ancestor of Elizabeth Bowen the writer.
The Bowens of Carrigadrohid abandoned the castle in the early 19th Century to live in the nearby Manor House at Oakgrove.
The castle is now in a very ruinous state, but still an impressive sight when viewed from the picnic spot.
This is two stage cache. To find the location of the cache you need to find the name of the Saint associated with the Castle, and then turn the letters in his name into numbers using the simple code Z=1 Y=2 etc. You are then ready to do some simple maths (you might want to bring a calculator! )to find the co-ordinates of the cache as follows:
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1st letter+3rd letter+8th letter= -- degrees
1st letter+2nd letter+last letter= --
(2nd letterx2nd letter)+(last letterxlast letter)=.---
W008
(4th letter+8th letter) x 2= --
last letter+8th letter+7th letter+6th letter+5th letter+4th letter+1st letter= .---
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
N Cyndhr va Vevfu, gur fnvag ba n fuvryq, gur zbggb orarngu gur nafjre jvyy lvryq!
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